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Publication Date: 2025
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Vice-Charging, Vaccines, and Values
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v57 n11 p1026-1035 2025
Cassam (2023) argued in this journal that vice-charging -- the practice of charging others with epistemic vices such as gullibility and dogmatism -- can itself be epistemically vicious. He focused, in particular, on charges of gullibility and dogmatism directed at parents hesitant to allow their kids to be vaccinated with the MMR vaccine. In this paper, I build on and extend his case by discussing relevant work he did not address. This includes work by Navin (2016) on parental vaccine refusal, recent empirical work concerning the link between differing moral values and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and recent empirical work on vaccine uptake and moral reproach. The work discussed here has important implications for public education efforts that aim to increase vaccine uptake.
Descriptors: Moral Values, Immunization Programs, Parent Attitudes, Health Behavior, Child Health, Public Health, COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Attitudes
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Philosophy, Religion, and Classical Studies, The College of New Jersey, Ewing Township, NJ, USA

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